Leave it to a legendary cartoonist to collect the stories of San Jose’s historical heroes and package the whole shebang into 40 pages of wonderment. Jim Hummel, a longtime fixture at the Mercury News, has now supplied the youth of the valley with an easy-to-grasp mechanism for retaining historical tidbits.
News News - page 145
To composer Guillermo Galindo, these are voices from the desert, Voces del Desierto, a work MACLA commissioned him to write for Quinteto Latino, a not-so-conventional wind ensemble. The piece will be debuted this weekend. Galindo, an established electro-acoustic composer based in the East Bay, drew inspiration for the project when he, along with Quinteto Latino director Armando Castellano and videographer Marvin Barrera, traveled to the U.S./Mexico border at Laredo one year ago.
Jenneke De Vries’ husband takes pizza very seriously. He was born in Naples to Dutch parents, and although he left Italy when he was still a young boy, he returned frequently to eat the city’s famed wood-fired bread creation. “He pretty much grew up on the pizza margarita,” she says. “He knows what he’s talking about.” Years later, living in Silicon Valley and working as a software engineer, he built a dome oven in his backyard so he could create thin-crust pizzas of his own.
Last month, my grocery bill was nearly $2,000. I don’t know if that sounds like a lot to you, but for a family of four with two young kids that seemed like a fortune. Something had to change. The problem as I saw it was I was shopping for each meal, running to the store several times a week. I knew this was neither efficient nor fiscally wise, so I decided to plan out a week’s worth of menus at once.
The announcement that Michael Miller would be stepping down as executive director of San Jose Jazz shocked a lot of people. Neither the group itself nor the local reporting on the story gave any clear reason for Miller’s jump to the smaller Children’s Musical Theater San Jose.
Eager to build, San Jose ponders relaxing downtown building height requirements. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for development sooner rather than later in the downtown core, but some business leaders feel it would be wise to wait for large-scale projects.
The inaugural “408K Race to the Row” takes place this Sunday. The 8K race begins in downtown San Jose, snakes through the Rose Garden and finishes up at Santana Row. “Just come out and have a good time and then get a Bloody Mary after the race. (Bloody Marys not included.)”
At Chutney Mary’s food truck, every dish has unusual ingredients and a rich cultural history. The latest food truck to hit the Silicon Valley area with a creative, crunchy and colorful menu that can always be found parked somewhere in Santa Clara and San Jose.
There is more to Chinese food than fried rice and wontons. Check these places out to see what you’ve been missing.
Somewhere between the time I snuck into a seat at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts last Thursday and the end of comedian Bill Maher’s set, when he announced a personal $1 million contribution to President Obama’s Super PAC, the topic of contraception came into his cross hairs. After a year of conservative-coordinated assaults on Planned Parenthood and other attacks on oral contraceptives and protected sex, we as a country have entered a bizarre moment. Not getting pregnant is the new abortion.
